Siphlonurus
Siphlonurus is a genus of primitive minnow mayflies in the family Siphlonuridae. There are more than 40 described species in Siphlonurus.

JerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SiphlonuridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
2 occurrences of Siphlonurus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Siphlonurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Amphientomum paradoxum1 site
- Baltameletus oligocaenicus1 site
- Bibio tenebrosus1 site
- Bibionidae1 site
- Boletina1 site
- Chironomus1 site
- Cicadellidae1 site
- Cinygma baltica1 site
- Clubionidae1 site
- Coleoptera1 site
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata1 site
- Diplectrona ocularia1 site
- Electroletus soldani1 site
- Eomortoniellus handlirschi1 site
- Epipsocus avus1 site
- Eurylophella viscata1 site
- Forficula baltica1 site
- Forficula klebsi1 site
- Formicidae1 site
- Glypta1 site
- Heptagenia atypica1 site
- Heptagenia gleissi1 site
- Heptagenia senex1 site
- Holocentropus affinis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Siphlonurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Late Cenozoic insect faunas in the northwestern region of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan1
- Deuxième contribution à la connaissance des Éphéméroptères de l'ambre oligocène de la Baltique1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Siphlonurus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JerryFriedman
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Siphlonurus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Siphlonurus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSiphlonuridae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eaton 1868